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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

You Make My Heart Throb

If you are not familiar with Elsie, check out her blog. She is so much fun and an amazing talent. Every time I click onto her blog I get lost for waaaaaay too much time. (As I just did so I could link it up to this post. Ha ha!)

This is one of my all-time fave pics of my son (c. 2 years ago) and I've had it sitting staring at me on my craft table for weeks just looking for the proper inspiration.

So, obviously, I was inspired by Elsie's hand-drawn, no-fuss line frames (which ARE solid lines on my layout despite if they may look broken on the screen), her fun mixed-up font writing, and her always gorgeous doodling.

I pulled in a little reddish-pink to complement the fabric swatch on the left side.

This fabric is some Elsie adhesive fabric (of which I've had so long it was no longer adhesive - but that worked out to my advantage). I stitched it at the edge of the paper to show how it's hanging over the edge. I like to do that, huh? Push the boundaries of the l/o. Looks fun except it makes photographing the l/o a bitch and doesn't work too well when you try to cram it into a regular scrapbook, lol.

The top doodled text block is also some Elsie paper - I think it's called math class.

Check out what the rest of the Ninjas made for your inspiration. It's simply fabulous!!